Understanding Quantum Mechanics: A Tour Through Its Most Bizarre Interpretations

Richard Feynman once said that all the mysteries of quantum mechanics are contained in the double-slit experiment. So perhaps the simplest way to explain what quantum mechanics is about is to start right there. In elementary school, we learned that atoms are the smallest building blocks of matter that still retain its properties. For a … Read more

Refactoring 030 – How to Avoid Accidental Redundancy

Avoid accidental redundancy TL;DR: Don’t pass attributes your object already owns Problems Addressed 😔 Redundant Parameters Unclear responsibility Duplicated logic Parameter pollution Low cohesion Parameter redundancy Code duplication Incomplete extracted method object Related Code Smells 💨 https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-xxxviii https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-xxxv https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-ii-o96s3wl4 https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-x-i7r34uj https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-xxix Steps 👣 Identify methods that receive owned attributes Remove those parameters from the method … Read more

The TechBeat: The TechBeat: I Built an AI Copilot That Thinks in Exploits, Not Prompts (7/4/2025) (7/13/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Trevor Koverko: From Athlete to AI Data Entrepreneur By @danstein [ 3 Min read ] From NHL draft pick to brain … Read more

Only 73% of Individuals on the Internet are Real

They were computerized avatars with perfect skin, carefully chosen captions, and no backstory. The majority brushed them off as gimmicks. Beautiful, yet hollow. Worth scrolling through, but forgettable. However, something altered. They improved more than just their human appearance. Their sense of humanity improved. Their builders provided them with depth—personalities, values, and even imperfections—in addition … Read more

Productivity Metrics are a Scam

In the pantheon of economic metrics, few enjoy the undeserved reverence that “productivity” does. Politicians chant it like a prayer. Economists bow before it. Central banks cite it to justify wage suppression and tax cuts for capital. But behind the polished numbers and authoritative graphs lies a sleight of hand so brazen it borders on … Read more

The TechBeat: What 300GB of AI Research Reveals About the True Limits of “Zero-Shot” Intelligence (7/12/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Coinzilla Delivers 75M+ Impressions, Powering Bitget’s 120% Growth in One Month By @coinzilla [ 3 Min read ] The results demonstrate … Read more

The Highlights and Improvements of Godot 4.4 Beta 3

Woah, another beta build already? You’re not imagining things, it’s only been a week since our last release. The team is fully in the swing of getting release-blockers merged, so we’re able to expedite output. What’s more, our community has been on the ball with submitting regression reports; thanks to everyone who’s involved themselves! While … Read more

Breaking Down and Explaining Type Parameters

slices package function signatures The slices.Clone function is pretty simple: it makes a copy of a slice of any type. func Clone[S ~[]E, E any](s S) S { return append(s[:0:0], s…) } This works because appending to a slice with zero capacity will allocate a new backing array. The function body winds up being shorter … Read more

A Peek at How Regulation Molds the Scoreboard – Crypto’s Global Ledger

Ranking crypto “investment” by country is difficult. Since on-chain value flows are better than survey guesswork, I use Chainalysis’s regional and national tallies, supported by additional internet research. Admittedly, the time period for the Chainalysis figures ends in June 2024, but it gives us a rough idea of who uses the most crypto. These are … Read more

How to Handle Log Spikes Like the Pros: How Top DevOps Teams Tame Bursty Workloads

Taylor Swift ticket sales brought the entire platform to its knees… a crypto exchange saw 10x its regular traffic during a price swing… holiday deals dropped at midnight, and retail sites scrambled to keep up. These weren’t just high-traffic moments. They were log storms. For DevOps teams in bursty verticals like media, fintech, gaming, and … Read more

Why AI Gets It Wrong More Than You Think

A clear and simple explanation of why smart machines still make dumb mistakes—and how we can help them do better. We use Artificial Intelligence (AI) all the time—sometimes without even noticing. It suggests songs we might like, helps doctors read test results, recommends what to buy online, and even helps us drive cars. It seems … Read more

From Generative AI to AGI: Are We Teaching Machines to Think?

Generative AI is no longer a futuristic buzzword — it’s already reshaping how we write, draw, compose, and design. But could it also be the stepping stone to something far more powerful: artificial general intelligence (AGI)? This article explores how AIGC (AI-Generated Content) technologies — from text and image generation to multimodal learning — are … Read more

$AIN Expands To 7 DEXs As AI Network Activates Omnichain AI Economy

Seoul, South Korea – July 7, 2025 – AI Network has announced the multichain expansion of its native token, $AIN, with listings across seven major decentralized exchanges (DEXs). More than just a liquidity boost, these listings establish the infrastructure for cross-chain AI agent collaboration and messaging. $AIN will be listed on the following DEXs and … Read more

MultiBank Group Confirms $MBG Token TGE Set For July 22, 2025

Hong Kong, Hong Kong, July 11th, 2025/Chainwire/–MultiBank Group, the world’s largest financial derivatives institution has officially announced that the Token Generation Event (TGE) for its highly anticipated $MBG Token will take place on July 22, 2025. This milestone will mark the full activation of the $MBG Token on the blockchain, enabling holders to view and … Read more

Futurism Is Broken

Ernest Hemingway wrote, “the world is a fine place and worth fighting for” — wouldn’t it be nice if futurists were the ones who fought for it? Unfortunately, we may be looking in the wrong place.

Turn Your PDF Library into a Searchable Research Database with 100 Lines of Code

In this blog we will walk through a comprehensive example of indexing research papers with extracting different metadata — beyond full text chunking and embedding — and build semantic embeddings for indexing and querying. We would greatly appreciate it if you could ⭐ star CocoIndex on GitHub if you find this tutorial helpful. Use Cases … Read more

The HackerNoon Newsletter: On Grok and the Weight of Design (7/11/2025)

How are you, hacker? 🪐 What’s happening in tech today, July 11, 2025? The HackerNoon Newsletter brings the HackerNoon homepage straight to your inbox. On this day, First Transatlantic TV Transmission via Satellite in 1962, Skylab Re-Enters the Earth’s Atmosphere in 1979, “To Kill a Mockingbird” Published in 1960, and we present you with these … Read more

IPinfo Expands Privacy Detection Capabilities With Advanced Residential Proxy Coverage

IPinfo has launched a Residential Proxy Detection API, enhancing its privacy detection suite to identify traffic routed through residential IPs—often used in fraud and abuse. With API, database, and Snowflake access, the solution helps security teams detect cloaked threats, enrich threat intel, and tune risk models with fresh, actionable IP data.

Verified and Audited — The Security Stack Behind LeveX

LeveX redefines crypto exchange security with real-time proof-of-reserves, audited custody, and margin isolation. Traders can verify funds, latency, and risks on demand. With tools for developers, compliance officers, and quants, LeveX replaces empty hype with verifiable metrics—making transparency the foundation, not a feature.